Type-writing machine.



R.- s. VALIANT I TYPE WRITING MACHINE. APPLIGATION FILED mm. 1908.

949,720. Patented Feb. 15, 1910.-

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ROBERT S. VALIANT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR T UNDERWOOD TYPE-W'RITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb 15, 1910.

Application filed June 12, 1908. Serial No. 438,016.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERTS. VALIANT, a citizen of the United States,residing in Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in TypeJVriting Machines, of which thefollowing is a specification. t

This invention relates to paper manipulating devices of typ'ewritingmachines, and particularly to means'for gaging the sheet in theoperation known as retail billing and charging, and is an improvementonthe' device disclosed'in Patent 829,989, granted September 4, 1906 toH. S. McCormack. In said patent a late havin ledges is mounted on thedelivery side 0 the platen, and the sheets are brought to register withthe ledges or gages on said plate by pressing the fingers on the surface0 the sheet and pushing it forward and sidewise to the gages. While theadjusting of the sheet once is but a small-matter, still where the samesheet is inserted and adjusted and removed from the machine agreat manytimes, the repeated rubbing of the fingers'thereon is aptto soil thesheet in some cases.

It is the object of theinvention to improve said device, with a View toavoid the necessity of pressing the fingers forcibly 113011 the sheet;and for this purpose I provide a recess in the rear edge of the plate,so as to permit the leading edge of the sheet to be readily picked upbetween the finger and thumb and pulled or set to the gages, Without anyliability of soiling the sheet.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a pers )ective view of aplaten and platen frame oi an Underwood typewriting machine with myimprovement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevationillustrating the manner of setting the sheet. to

the gages. 4

Type-bars 1 strike on the front of a platen 2, mounted by means of anaxle 3 in the ends 4 5 01' a )laten frame which also com- 7 7 7 prises apaper table 6 1n the. rear otthe} down around and up in front of theplaten to guide the paper forwardly to the printing line. An adjustablegage 8 is usually mounted upon the paper table 6 at the introductoryside of the platen for the right hand edge of the sheet. Over the latenis mounted a plate ortablet 9 provi e with ledges or gages 10, 10 forthe leading and side edges of the "sheet. The plate is adjustablysupported by a pair of arms 11 secured to yokes12 journaled upon-a rod13 secured in the platen frame, said yokes being locked on the rodagainst accidental rotation by means of spring-pressed rollers 14engaging a groove 15 extending along the rod; I provide a recess 16 inthe rear edge of said plate, about midway of its length, to permit theoperator to conveniently pick up the leadin end of a sheet lying ontheplate, to pull it l orward and sidewise to the ledges or gages onsaid plate, without pressing or pinching the sheet so forcibly as tomark or smudge the same.

In operation 'the feed rolls'17, 18 are cast off from the platen in theusual manner. The sheet 19 is then inserted and slipped around theplaten and onto the plate 9;

The leading edge of the sheet is then pickedup by the finger and thumband pulled forward and sidewise to s uare it with the ledges 10 and 10.The. eed rolls are then thrown into engagement with the platen, and thewriting proceeds. I i -Having thus described my invention, I claim: H Ina typcwri'ting machine, the combination with a platen and a platenframe,'of a gage-plate lying along the top of the platen and having afinger-recess to permit grasping the paper at the leading end to squareit a ainst the gage. v

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